1978: The Ancient Sport of Road Bowling | Scene Around Six | Niche Sports | BBC Archive YouTube video by BBC Archive

Yeah - it's a fascinating doco and scenery of various UK waterways and quarries is top noch. But, I'll take your skimming and raise you some "Road Bowling" courtesy of BBC archive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfR...

The Soba Restaurant and the Oyster Bar: Peripheral Spaces for Responsible Research and Innovation As STS researchers working closely with scientists and engineers, we have been invited into, created, reluctantly entered, and stumbled upon many kinds of spaces, some of which might be considered ...

So happy this is finally out.

The first paper in our attempt to begin to think about spaces for responsible innovation beyond the tired tropes of ELSI panels etc. #sts #rri #soba

Making Do | Stanford University Press Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been us...

So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...

Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025 Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In this article Callon confronts the question (vital then, imperative now) of whether governments should devote funding to basic research? "Science is a public good," Callon argues, "not because of its intrinsic properties but because it is a source of diversity and flexibility."

Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 23 March 1993 - Michel Callon, 1994 Should governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should ...

In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Regulating the Plant Versus Regulating the Drug: Learning From Backyard Cannabis Cultivation in the Australian Capital Territory - Liz Barrett, Matthew Kearnes, Laura McLauchlan, Kari Lancaster, Richa... The cultivation of cannabis has been shaped by underpinning social, political, and economic dynamics over thousands of years. Recently, a new wave of regulatory...

Very pleased to announce the release of this paper exploring cannabis cultivation in Canberra. Thinking with cannabis as plant and attending to practices, relationships and materialities of care and cultivation will yield better and more relevant policy🌿

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Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts Scientific work has always worked alongside promises of future developments. Promises, though, have very different consequences across different contexts. Indeed, the formulation of scientific prom...

📂Are you interested in the study of technoscientific promises? SaC is making the article "Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts," by Pablo Kreimer, available free access. Make sure to check out!

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Call for Participants: 1-day in-person workshop here in Naarm/Melbourne on "Emergency Climates." Social science, humanities, STS scholars + others - come discuss the meaning of “emergency” today. Organised by me + Andy Lakoff (USC), CfP closes 11 April 2025 (soon!): forms.gle/yRSoxuFYSDA3...

Flow Batteries, windships, and a new approach to off-grid solar - ABC listen They're cheaper and safer than their lithium counterparts, they're easier to scale-up, and they can hold power for much longer than conventional batteries, so why aren't flow batteries better known? T...

. @paulmunro.bsky.social outlines our research on off-grid (final 8 mins) #solar repair and e-waste in #Vanuatu, #Zambia and #Malawi.

He discusses the dynamics of the off-grid sector that complicate repair, the challenges communities face on the ground, and the solutions (upstream & downstream).

Invisible Participation: Patients with Oncological and Rare Diseases in Russia - Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva, Klasien Horstman, 2025 Scholars have paid much attention to patients’ participation in healthcare, such as engagement in activities developed by healthcare providers and involvement i...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Invisible Participation: Patients with Oncological and Rare Diseases in Russia" by Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva, and Klasien Horstman #patient #participation #Russia #cancer #rarediseases journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Every 2 years, we like to publicly thank all those fantastic scholars who help keep the wheels of peer review and journal publishing running by heeding the call and (unpaid!) reviewing new manuscripts for us. Read "On Peer Review and Exchanges Unseen" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Co-Design in Practice: Bringing STS to Post-Brexit Agricultural Policy - Judith Tsouvalis, Charlotte Burns, José Fajardo-Escoffié, David Christian Rose, Sue Hartley, Ruth Little, 2025 Following the Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom's Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) began to

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Co-Design in Practice: Bringing STS to Post-Brexit Agricultural Policy" by Judith Tsouvalis, Charlotte Burns, José Fajardo-Escoffié, David Christian Rose, Sue Hartley and Ruth Little #Brexit #landmanagement #participation
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Making Light Work: Infrastructures and Their Many Publics - Judith Green, Mike Michael, Rebecca Steinbach, Phil Edwards, 2025 This article explores the multiplicity of publics that are enacted in relation to infrastructures. We take the case of street lighting infrastructure in the UK ...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Making Light Work: Infrastructures and Their Many Publics" by Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social, Mike Michael, Rebecca Steinbach, + Phil Edwards #infrastructures #lighting #publics #expertise #ignorance journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📣Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚡SIGNALS AND NOISES⚡

9 - 11 July, 2025
Melbourne/Naarm

Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social

Ful CFP coming soon!

CfP Carbon Creations RGS-IBG 2025 FINAL Call for papers RGS-IBG 2025, Birmingham, UK, 26–29th August Carbon creations and creative carbons: the politics of carbon in land management and restoration Conveners: Kärg Kama (University of Birmin...

Calling environmental geographers, political ecologists and STS scholars working on carbon farming, afforestation, peat restoration & related topics!

Please consider our 2025 RGS-IBG session:
"Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons: The Politics of Carbon in Land Management and Restoration"

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "The Sociotechnical Life of a Shapeshifting Technology: The Bike Lift Trampe in Trondheim" by Ivana Suboticki, Lina Hopaneng Ingeborgrud + Knut H. Sørensen #shapeshifting #technology #bicycle #infrastructure #domestication journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...